Farch. This is what a teacher friend of mine named February and March—Farch. It’s the time of year here in the upper Midwest when clean snow gives way to mud, the robin’s-egg blue sky turns gray, and even if it looks like it could—should—be warm, one’s fingers still need to be covered with clumsy mittens. Farch is the perfect word for this time of year, because the word itself sounds like the misery it intends to invoke. Farch is old ground…stale energy…a candle about to die.

2018 Ski Retreat in the Headwaters Mission Center of the Community of Christ

The Milwaukee-Wauwatosa Community of Christ church is sensing a call to be intentional about their mission to be invitational and to reach out to neighbors. They started their year off with a showing of the documentary Barn Raisers, produced by Moline, Illinois Community of Christ church members Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films. The documentary explores the seemingly ubiquitous barns that dot the Midwest countryside and what they say about the people who built them